🌿 Environment Jun 2, 2026 · International Elephant Project

This Mobile Veterinary Unit Is Standing Between Sumatra’s Elephants and Extinction

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This Mobile Veterinary Unit Is Standing Between Sumatra’s Elephants and Extinction
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Fewer than 1,000 Sumatran elephants remain in the wild. Every injury, every untreated wound, every avoidable death reduces that number even further. This is why, when a wild elephant was spotted in North Sumatra limping and in distress, a team mobilized without hesitation. 







By Leif Cocks



That team is the Wildlife Ambulance, a mobile veterinary service that has become one of the most important forces standing between Critically Endangered Sumatran elephants and their extinction. P

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